Christophe's Corner

HDS recently released an upgrade to Hitachi Dynamic Replicator.  A fairly substantial upgrade, Hitachi Dynamic Replicator 5.5 offers our customers more data protection options above and beyond an already robust feature set. I recently sat down with Adam O’Dwyer, one of our product marketing managers, to discuss some of these new features and what they [...]

After a fantastic kick off to the Hitachi Information Forums series with the Santa Clara event in September where we announced the Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) and the Hitachi Command Suite 7, we initiated what looks like a rock band world tour of cities.  Many HDS spokespeople covered these events with the support of the [...]

I was in Orlando last week attending the Gartner ITxpo event.  HDS had a booth there, and we were grateful to have a customer, Jeffrey Papen from Peak Web Hosting, join us and speak at the event.

Last week I blogged about the criticality of leveraging innovations and technology to optimize efficiencies, reduce your carbon footprint and improve operational costs in the data center.

Based upon the title, you may have been expecting this post to be about national or California politics. Itís tempting, but rather, Iíd like to focus on something positive –the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP).†† In particular, I want to cover some important sustainability aspects of our newest platform.

On Monday, Hitachi Data Systems introduced two game-changing products:† the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and the Hitachi Command Suite (v7.0).†† Itís been a lot of work for a large team of people at HDS around the world and for our colleagues in Japan.† It culminated in a fantastic launch event that kicks off a series [...]

A while back, I blogged about some very interesting results from a survey of our customers that TechValidate conducted on HDS’s behalf.   I focused on our enterprise platform in my posting but today I’d like to spend some time discussing some very interesting results from a similar type of exercise, focused on our Hitachi Data [...]

I have shared some data from TechValidate in the past that pointed at many storage characteristics and benefits that our systems make possible. Two of the main benefits are  reliability and availability – both signatures of HDS.  

As many of you already know, Hitachi Data Systems partners with technology leaders like Brocade to deliver complete solutions to our customers… and Business Continuity/Business Resilience is a natural fit for both companies.   The core infrastructure is truly the heart of the datacenter supporting everything users have come to rely on to get their job [...]

Back from what seems a long absence from blogging, I thought I’d take some time to share a few interesting facts about our customers, how they use their USP-V and USP-VM systems, and how they truly leverage the unique capabilities of these platforms.